"Distance running to a professional athlete in my……" — Lynn Swann
"Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse."
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19 Quotes by Lynn Swann
Lynn Swann has 19 quotes on this site.
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We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
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I was not a very good football player when I started out.
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Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or…
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the…
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I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.
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I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body…
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Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
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When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
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If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay…
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Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
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Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art,…
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I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
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More Athlete Quotes
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it…
— Lance Armstrong
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
— Lance Armstrong
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
— Lance Armstrong
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
— Arthur Ashe
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say…
— Tyra Banks
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
— Roger Bannister
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I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and…
— Roger Bannister
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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